Combined swing and chair



(No-Model.) N

1:'. ROBINIUS. YCOMBINED SWING AND CHAIN.

No.` 295.9445. PatentedApr. 1, 1884. Y

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFIcIa l FRANcIs noBINIUs, on INnIiANAroIIIs, INDIANA.

o oMBlNED SWING AND CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,946, dated April 1, 1884. Application tiled January i7, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom t may con/cern.:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS ItoBINIUs, a

citizen of the `United States, residing at In-` v to support the hinged back in a novel and more safe manner than heretofore; second, to provide improved means for attaching the swinging cordsv to the chair.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. v

Figure I is a side elevation, showing the device as aswing. Fig. 2 is a plan with the suspending-cords removed. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation ofthe device as a chair.-

a is a rectangular seat, to each side of which is pivoted, near the front edge, an upright, b,

which extends above the seat to support anarm, c, and below the seat to support a footrest, d. `To `each side of the seat, near the back edge, is pivoted an upright, e, to which the back of the chair is secured. Arms care pivoted to the uprights b and e, and at ashort distance below each arm is pivoted a parallel bar, f.

g g and h h are light bars of metal, provided at each end with an upturned eye, i,- a-nd secured to the under side of the seat, andpro j ecting therefrom on each side'. Said bars are for the purpose of forming points of attachment for the suspending-cordsy 7n, (there being a pair of each,`) and are 1each curved toward and' beyond the edge of the seat, so that the points of attachment of the cords may be wide apart. `The suspending cords are removably connected with the eyes t by snaphooks Z.

In this class of swinging chairs as heretofore constructed, the hinged back lhas been supported at different inclinations by a ratchetbar pivoted tol the `back and engaging a pin projecting from the seat, and the back has 5o been `supported at the extreme limit of its backward movement by a third cord running from the point of suspension 'to the. back of the chair, and hanging slack when the back was not fully extended. The ratchet-bar is found to be not well adapted for use by 55 children, for whom the chair is intended, and is liable to give away suddenly. The supporting-cord becoming stretched allows the back to fall too far. For the purpose of avoiding these difficulties, I support the hinged back at different inclinations by passing the rear sus l pending-cords through eyebolts m m, secured tothe outside of each of the upright-s e, and thence downward to the hooks Z, engaging the rear bar, h h., allowing the' freely through said eyebolts m. By this construction the back will be sustained at varying degrees of inclination, dependent on the relative distribution of the weight of' the occupant of the chair between theseat and the hinged back.

For the purpose of preventing the back from falling too far, I pivot the barsf to the nprights at such a distance below the arms c that the upper edge thereof and the lower edge of the arm will come together when the back has fallen to its lowest desirable limit, thus furnishing a positive stop, which is not dependent on the attention of the occupant of the chair for its operation.

For the purpose of supporting the chairindependently of the cords, I hinge to the under side` of the seat two pairs of legs, n o, which areadapted` to fold against thebottom, and are supported when extended by brace-hooks p.

I claim as my invention- I. The combination, with a folding reclining-chair having a hinged back and cords for suspending the same, of two Aeyebolts secured to opposite edges of said back, and two of the said suspending-cords passing through said eyes, arranged to slide therein, and attached to a fixed support on the seat of the chair, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a folding reclining-chair, the combination, with seat a, uprights Z and e, pivotedv thereto, as described, and arm c, pivoted to said uprights, of bar f, also pivoted to said uprights, substantially as and for the purpose speciiied.

FRANCIS ROBINIUS. Witnesses: p

H. IE. Hoon,

E. O. ABBOTT,

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